Turfster

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lowkey stressing about bandcamp friday coming up

my outreach has mostly tanked this year, it's been extremely difficult to find my audience on any alternative social media sites. bluesky has been worthless because nobody shares things there unless it's a horny shitpost, threads is still too much of a discoverability mess, and cohost doesn't really do a lot for musicians as i don't think the general audience is as interested in it. mastodon is the only place where i have grown and built some meaningful friendships and even gotten purchases from people there, but it's still much worse than what i was managing pre-elon twitter

i wish i didn't have to worry about these things, but unfortunately "numbers are brainrot" doesn't really count when the number that matters most is the money i need to survive and grow. i do genuinely agree that higher follower count for the sake of it is pointless, but i do wish i had more people who were able to engage with my work and appreciate it and be able to share that to others who could possibly feel the same way

it's great music you should check it out maybe

a couple years ago i bought some paperclips online.

You really gotta order your products from a company that, if you look into it, was actually a titanic American conglomerate like Rockwell or Gulf and Western at some point in the 1960s but the only surviving department that keeps the name is the facility that just makes random doodads now

you know, we all love that paperclip ai game but boy I think it's worth at least pondering the way it plays (very explicitly in the liner notes) to this rationalcult MIRI company line of "ai is going to be sapient but dangerously alien unless we make it Friendly". we live, however, in the real world of observable, actually existing paperclip optimizers. it's just The Free Market baby and it turns out the most optimal way to produce paperclips is to just scam people with fake paperclips. we're just doing it to ourselves with algorithms quite literally dumb as rocks we taught to sort of resemble thinking entities, the way celebrity psychics resemble Paul Atreides. that's probably, all things considered, one of the core appeals of the game: it's much cooler to imagine the fleets of hypnodrones than to imagine the actual future that computers have made possible: faster and more annoying games of three card monty replacing whatever it is you wanted to do.

(which is basically a very condensed way of saying stuff I said in an article on my blog a few years ago, which I'd link to, except Google Analytics bricked my entire blog, so you have to read it in wayback instead sigh)

shout out to all the good dogs reading this

shout out to all the bad dogs reading this